Questions: Technology & Internet

The chances are companies have collected, stored, studied, and sold data about you, including your age, gender, race, employment status, geographic location, interests, hobbies, friends, family, shopping habits, political views, voting intentions, and many more.

It does not end there; privacy intrusive companies track our online and offline activities. They use the data to build sophisticated algorithms about you, to influence your thoughts, online and offline behaviour.

I do not like companies collecting data about me. I do not like companies like Google identifying my geographic location from its search engine. I do not like YouTube (google) collecting information about what videos I watch. Although I do not use Facebook, Instagram, Snap, LinkedIn, and Amazon's Alexa, these companies are reportedly collecting, storing, and using data about you, and in most cases without your understandable consent.

I dislike the thought of a data harvester selling my personal data to a data broker, and companies using the data to build algorithmic profiles about me and following me online ads with products they think I'm likely to be interested in.

I want to gauge the opinions of fellow GaG members on digital privacy.